Comcast to limit customers' broadband usage - Oct 1
 

Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/...st_internet_dc

I'm fucked!!!

thank God for the neighbors open network!

my buddy in chicago says comcast broadband is bad as-is...
I bet he'll be thrilled by this news :P

not that im in favor of limits but 250 gigs is not that bad i have heard some isp's limiting it to 60 gigs in some areas now that's really fucked :2 cents::2 cents:

Around here we've had limits since day one. 250 GB is more than ample for most people. I work online 7 days a week up to 14 hours a day while listening to internet radio, then I play some online games and I have never even come close to 100. I bet most of the people that complain about 250GB/mo are either file sharing or have no idea how little bandwidth they actually use.

if you need more, then you should have business class internet. its just like a dedicated server, they have to pay for your usage to their own backbone uplinks.

i love my dynamic ip and unlimited bandwidth on my DSL account from ATT/Bellsouth for only $40 a month

Pretty much.

What kind of speed are you getting with DSL?

Yeah, 8+ gigs per day isnt too bad. I rarely hit that, and i do tons of movie uploading/downloading for my sites.